The ambitious project could have changed the way the world looks at public transport It was meant to change the game completely. A hugely ambitious high speed rail network that would connect many of France’s biggest cities, its bleeding edge technology would be the envy of the world. It looked good on paper. Off the page? It was a disaster of rather hefty scale that was abandoned and left to rot.
Jean Bertin’s tech was sound but in the end it was The 1973 Oil Crisis that killed his project More tests were carried out, refinements were made and everything looked set for the Aérotrain to change how French people travelled around their homeland. The new technology was ready to usher in a rail revolution. But then things started to go rather horribly wrong.